They said that one of the primary objections were from soldiers. I think looking unpatriotic/unAmerican/unSupportTheTroops would be very bad for business.
Even if it is not turned over on appeal, it is not like they are even going to collect 1% of that money in the forseeable future.
What I wonder is what happens in a situation like this? If a person has $50,000 in assets and makes $20,000 a year, and they get, say, a $10,000,000 judgement rendered against them, how the hell is it paid for? Debtor's jail doesn't exist anymore, does it?
Anyone who buys a player and upgrades the firmware before checking out all of the cool shit you can do with the stock firmware deserves to get the royal screwjob IMO. There's plenty of good reasons not to go with the latest iTunes or iPod/iPhone firmware, namely homebrew. I do not know if the Zune has any homebrew of their own, but they have just unwittingly introduced a reason for a firmware downgrader to be coded (if there was not one already).
For everything they come up with, someone will come up with a way to break it.
As I understand it, Trusted Computing will be based on chips hardcoded into the system, no? What prevents anyone from developing a modchip that circumvents the system but doesn't stop stuff from running?
And I really hope I do not get any unreasonable "it's too hard to crack" answers. It's Treacherous Computing, not PGP. Hell, CSS was supposed to be unbreakable and that was cracked.
I think smart employers would treat their lower level employees like their mid to higher level ones (i.e. design your own office). Even if it was just to bring in your own furniture, I think there might be too many places out there that have a "take it as it is and don't touch it" attitude with their office space.
This could be cause I'm an American, but I had no idea you could get pre-paid electric meters. That's pretty interesting.
A lot of countries have electric meters mounted on the outside of the house, either in the front or the back. (This is not as commonplace in America, where a lot of houses still have meters in the basement.) I wonder, if you can put a "key" into this pre-paid meter, what prevents someone from surreptiously inserting their company's key into your meter and forcing a change in your service? It would be pretty hard to show that you did not actually switch service, would it not?
Why not just have a subscription with the paper automatically give you an account with the newspaper, then? That would at least partially solve the problem as you'd have the subscription info to tie the account to the person getting the paper.
Right, but for a code to be issued someone would have to know about it. You have a phone or a PA system in one place in the classroom or lecture hall with a gunman rampaging about? Whoever goes to make a call is going to be risking their lives.
It's gonna work out real well for a university that blocks out phone calls like that when someone shoots up the school and nobody knows anything about it.
You'd think safety would be more important than some freshman getting a text with the quiz answers.
Matt Damon did excellent work in the espionage/underhanded sort of films like the Bourne Trilogy and the Oceans Trilogy. He also can pull off a good sense of humor as evidenced in the Ocean films and his cameo in Eurotrip (his rendition of the band's vocalist is STILL some of the funniest shit I've ever seen). He would make an excellent MacGyver.
The real question here is can he pull off a mullet?
I don't know where the Hell you live, but beers are getting passed around at parties to high school Freshmen.
The worst thing is that we elevate liquor to this status of something "adult", something dirty and wrong. In Europe this is a non-issue. If you have wine with your dinner and you're 12, that's their culture. If you have wine with your dinner in America and you're 12, your parents are guilty of child neglect and providing alcohol to a minor. That's nuts.
Oh No Robot [ohnorobot.com] has been doing this for years in the webcomics world - allowing users to assign text labels to comics. It's basically writing the script for a comic that already exists.
Addendum: I have discovered that I can greatly amuse myself by offering commentary on the images themselves rather than actually try to label them, such as [Jessica Alba Picture] "I bet you are wanking now" and [trippy album cover] "I could do better if / I opened up MS Paint / and had a seizure."
I might be the first person to be banned from this game... but as in the spirit of Watterson's Calvin I like to make someone's day a little more surreal.:3
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They said that one of the primary objections were from soldiers. I think looking unpatriotic/unAmerican/unSupportTheTroops would be very bad for business.
So you haven't seen the iPhone yet I take it?
I have to remember who I loan them to.
Don't worry, the Kindle will conveniently render the option to loan books out a moot point.
Even if it is not turned over on appeal, it is not like they are even going to collect 1% of that money in the forseeable future.
What I wonder is what happens in a situation like this? If a person has $50,000 in assets and makes $20,000 a year, and they get, say, a $10,000,000 judgement rendered against them, how the hell is it paid for? Debtor's jail doesn't exist anymore, does it?
Anyone who buys a player and upgrades the firmware before checking out all of the cool shit you can do with the stock firmware deserves to get the royal screwjob IMO. There's plenty of good reasons not to go with the latest iTunes or iPod/iPhone firmware, namely homebrew. I do not know if the Zune has any homebrew of their own, but they have just unwittingly introduced a reason for a firmware downgrader to be coded (if there was not one already).
A google search for "microsoft sandisk percentage mp3 player market" turned up this article, which is the one I am pretty sure you are looking for.
I got the search terms right on the first try, and I was just fielding an educated guess. Don't wish, JFGI. d:
...if the Islamofacistfragilisticexpealadocious' (or whatever the PC term is nowadays) have an Arabic-language equivalent of The Anarchist Cookbook.
The government would also lose an element of fear and control over the citizens, so why would they ever do that?
For everything they come up with, someone will come up with a way to break it.
As I understand it, Trusted Computing will be based on chips hardcoded into the system, no? What prevents anyone from developing a modchip that circumvents the system but doesn't stop stuff from running?
And I really hope I do not get any unreasonable "it's too hard to crack" answers. It's Treacherous Computing, not PGP. Hell, CSS was supposed to be unbreakable and that was cracked.
I was really disappointed when I learned this was overall sales and not something that is going to be in one disk. ):
In Japan, they call it a Yattabye.
I think smart employers would treat their lower level employees like their mid to higher level ones (i.e. design your own office). Even if it was just to bring in your own furniture, I think there might be too many places out there that have a "take it as it is and don't touch it" attitude with their office space.
This could be cause I'm an American, but I had no idea you could get pre-paid electric meters. That's pretty interesting.
A lot of countries have electric meters mounted on the outside of the house, either in the front or the back. (This is not as commonplace in America, where a lot of houses still have meters in the basement.) I wonder, if you can put a "key" into this pre-paid meter, what prevents someone from surreptiously inserting their company's key into your meter and forcing a change in your service? It would be pretty hard to show that you did not actually switch service, would it not?
Why not just have a subscription with the paper automatically give you an account with the newspaper, then? That would at least partially solve the problem as you'd have the subscription info to tie the account to the person getting the paper.
Right, but for a code to be issued someone would have to know about it. You have a phone or a PA system in one place in the classroom or lecture hall with a gunman rampaging about? Whoever goes to make a call is going to be risking their lives.
It's gonna work out real well for a university that blocks out phone calls like that when someone shoots up the school and nobody knows anything about it.
You'd think safety would be more important than some freshman getting a text with the quiz answers.
Matt Damon did excellent work in the espionage/underhanded sort of films like the Bourne Trilogy and the Oceans Trilogy. He also can pull off a good sense of humor as evidenced in the Ocean films and his cameo in Eurotrip (his rendition of the band's vocalist is STILL some of the funniest shit I've ever seen). He would make an excellent MacGyver.
The real question here is can he pull off a mullet?
We have plenty of control over our government! Hell, that's one of the reasons I hold shares in Halliburton!
I don't know where the Hell you live, but beers are getting passed around at parties to high school Freshmen.
The worst thing is that we elevate liquor to this status of something "adult", something dirty and wrong. In Europe this is a non-issue. If you have wine with your dinner and you're 12, that's their culture. If you have wine with your dinner in America and you're 12, your parents are guilty of child neglect and providing alcohol to a minor. That's nuts.
I don't know, I don't think an asteroid can rise up from the ocean and slam into the Earth again.
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Alternatively, if you can get your hands on sonar...
I don't know how we could go about throwing out the entire legislative branch.
Oh No Robot [ohnorobot.com] has been doing this for years in the webcomics world - allowing users to assign text labels to comics. It's basically writing the script for a comic that already exists.
How the hell can they do that?
RECORDING: *tik* *tak* *tik* *tik* *tak*
JIM: "The password's gotta be penis, Bob! We got the bastard!"
Addendum: I have discovered that I can greatly amuse myself by offering commentary on the images themselves rather than actually try to label them, such as [Jessica Alba Picture] "I bet you are wanking now" and [trippy album cover] "I could do better if / I opened up MS Paint / and had a seizure."
I might be the first person to be banned from this game... but as in the spirit of Watterson's Calvin I like to make someone's day a little more surreal. :3